Andy Millne

These aren't currently features. Yes it's hardcoded to monthly though I plan on adding yearly from the previous months entries. I do not plan on adding support for multiple competitions to run concurrently. I like your suggestion for not making votes and views public and for hiding the author. Perhaps this could be simplified into a single setting to avoid subjectivity like you say. From personal experience knowing the vote count seems to foster competition and increased sharing on social media but I can see some communities would benefit. I'll add it to the suggestions list.

There is. It shows the current top 3.
Demo added at https://myurl.co.uk/demo/

There is. It shows the current top 3.
Demo added at https://myurl.co.uk/demo/

There is. It shows the current top 3.
Demo added at https://myurl.co.uk/demo/

There's a live install at https://doglymail.com/motm/
I'll get a playground demo set up now.

There's a live install at https://doglymail.com/motm/
I'll get a playground demo set up now.

Support topic for Photo Competition
 

Andy,
Do you have a demo set up somewhere? Would love to check this out.

Invitation - Allow club leaders to send invitations to external (non-community) users.  My club leader has an extremely active membership that exists on another platform, but he doesn't have a way of sending email invitations to them via my site and directly inviting them to join his new club.   
Join - This is probably the #1 pain point and I don't know why I didn't bring it up before.  External (non-community) users don't understand they need to register on my site and join the club.  It consistently causes a lot of confusion to new users.  I'm envisioning a streamlined join process that both registers on my site and joins the club in a single process.
Club Marketing - This is consistently requested by my Club Leader to be able to send out bulk mail to the members within his club, as email is the preferred way of communicating with his group.    
 
I also want to reiterate existing pain points of clubs, especially:
Node Control - I don't have full access to all category settings, which continues to be a problem.  This means I can't toggle "albums only" for gallery, which means users are spraying their pics all over the category and not organizing into albums.  Default Follow - Users don't auto-follow the club when they join, which means they don't get club updates even though that's the sole reason why they joined.  I had to send out a lengthy tutorial that explained how to follow the club AND how to adjust their notification settings, although I'm resigned to the fact that most of those users will never be able to figure out those settings.    

The pics we have been provided are rotating fine locally in testing. Please make sure the PHP EXIF extension is installed on your server.

If altering this you would need to also make sure PHP is configured so that the session expiration time is at least as high as the value you set or you'll see varying results when garbage collection runs. that is one of the reasons it is no longer configurable as increasing the value does not necessarily lead to reliable results

The pics we have been provided are rotating fine locally in testing. Please make sure the PHP EXIF extension is installed on your server.

Not a problem for me. If they have enough friends that are willing to spend time repping them to get them promoted then thats fine the system works. If people don't appreciate them or what they have to say then they won't do that for them.Kind of like a cooperative invite. What you are arguing is the reputation system is fundamentally flawed and open to abuse, in that case why even have it in the first place? Personally I think it does work if set to positive only and if so then why not use the results of it to perform actions such as this?

Would it be possible to add number of reputation points as a criterion for group promotion? I think this is a better way of determining quality of members than number of posts and days since joining.

Sounds good :D

On a serious note though "Registration failed due to suspected abuse. Please contact us if you think you have received this message in error." Could work.

On that note it would also be nice if the member list could be sorted by reputation too ;)

Would it be possible to add number of reputation points as a criterion for group promotion? I think this is a better way of determining quality of members than number of posts and days since joining.

Would it be possible to add number of reputation points as a criterion for group promotion? I think this is a better way of determining quality of members than number of posts and days since joining.

Thanks, Can we get a mouse-over button like the one for editing topic title please? Editing description now takes three clicks and three full page loads. when it used to only take one mouse hold.

Thanks, Can we get a mouse-over button like the one for editing topic title please? Editing description now takes three clicks and three full page loads. when it used to only take one mouse hold.

We need a toggle button to switch between visual (RTE) editor, which should be placed directly directly on the Fast Reply box, and Full Editor mode box. Right now, the only way to switch between modes is by going to settings --> Posting Settings --> Enable visual (RTE) editor

I know someone also brought this up, but I will emphasize it. We need expiring redirects (and the user can set the specified time in hours, days, months, or a custom time) for moved threads. Also, we need a way to manage and set existing "moved threads" in the ACP. For example, with the new update, existing moved threads will not have this expiring redirect applied. In the ACP, please add a section where the admin can view all moved threads, and set expiring redirects as desired.

Thanks! :)

You are missing the template added bu the hook, re-import the xml file to fix the issue.

Would it be possible to add number of reputation points as a criterion for group promotion? I think this is a better way of determining quality of members than number of posts and days since joining.

Yes but again this is an argument against the complete rep system not promotion based on reputation. How many people's friends are going to register to a random board just to get a friend a minor promotion.

The point is, if the reputation system is any use at all, then it should be used for purposes such as this. Otherwise its entire existence is totally pointless. If the reputation system works succesfully, as it does on my board, then we should be able to utilise it fully.And would remove the temptation to reply to every post with inane smilies and comments that add nothing to discussion.

Would it be possible to add number of reputation points as a criterion for group promotion? I think this is a better way of determining quality of members than number of posts and days since joining.